Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The new congress starts tomorrow and they are proposing a 100 billion cut in spending for some discretionary spending including education. There is already outrage at such drastic proposals.

Get used to it. A 100 billion cut is tiny compared to our overall spending of 3.2 trillion.It is not drastic at all, it just upsets special interests. They are talking about laying off 40000 teachers.Why not lay off the bloated administrators who are not actually in the classroom.? The reason we hear teachers instead of administration is that no one gets upset when administrators get laid off but they do when teachers get let go.

If this congress is serious about cutting spending , and I think they are , then we will be seeing a lot more arguing, finger pointing and scare mongering. Do not be miss led, the real and only fear is that our debt will bring us down.

Did you know that airport managers are not happy with TSA and have the option to opt out and have a private firm take over. Many airports are opting out and can not wait to give the business to private industry. Their reasons are unhappy travelers, no accountability,bloated and inept management,no response to complaints , inability to terminate poorly preforming employees, and inability to adjust working hours to load resulting in longer delays.

Are there any surprises here? Think US postal Service and most other government run agencies. We keep trying the same thing again and again and still get the same results. By definition we are idiots.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Welcome to the 212th congress. We just want to make certain that you got our message. We do not approve of the direction our country is heading and are very upset at the job done by previous congresses. We are drowning in national debt. We want economic growth and the jobs that come with it. We demand that you fix this mess.

We know that the federal debt is what is holding this country back and we expect you to fix it. We know that we all will have to sacrifice and are prepared to do so as long as you spread the sacrifice evenly. We accept that you will have to make cuts in sacred programs and may have to eliminate some departments which have not performed.We also accept that you will have to speed up bringing our troops home. We even anticipate that you may have to increase taxes eventually.But we expect you to balance the budget,reduce the debt,and spend our money wisely.

You must change your ways. We will not tolerate political bickering and attacks and will not accept the blame game anymore. You will have to learn to compromise and quit pandering to special interests and the extreme wings of your party which do not represent the views of those who elected you. You all ran with a R or D next to your name ,but you were elected by voters who have an" I" next to their name. Fail us and we will initiate our own form of term limits . Thank you and good luck.

A new pole today shows that 61 % favor raising taxes on the rich to cut the deficit. And 20 % say cut defense spending ,4 % medicare and 3 % social security. Wow these people are ignorant. The attitude is cut the deficit but don't use my money.

The deficit is 1.3 trillion. Raising taxes on the rich back to the Clinton era levels raises revenue 90 billion. So how do these idiots think we will come up with the other 1.2 trillion? Cut defense will almost do it if we cut it by 100%.